Spatial complexity measure for characterising cellular automata generated 2D patterns
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Javaheri Javid, M.A., Blackwell, T., Zimmer, R., Al-Rifaie, M.M.: Spatial complexity measure for characterising cellular automata generated 2D patterns. In: Pereira, F., Machado, P., Costa, E., Cardoso, A. (eds.) EPIA 2015. LNCS, vol. 9273, pp. 201–212. Springer, Heidelberg (2015)
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_21
Abstract
Cellular automata (CA) are known for their capacity to generate complex patterns through the local interaction of rules. Often the generated patterns, especially with multi-state two-dimensional CA, can exhibit interesting emergent behaviour. This paper addresses quantitative evaluation of spatial characteristics of CA generated patterns. It is suggested that the structural characteristics of two-dimensional (2D) CA patterns can be measured using mean information gain. This information-theoretic quantity, also known as conditional entropy, takes into account conditional and joint probabilities of cell states in a 2D plane. The effectiveness of the measure is shown in a series of experiments for multi-state 2D patterns generated by CA. The results of the experiments show that the measure is capable of distinguishing the structural characteristics including symmetry and randomness of 2D CA patterns.
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@Inbook{JavaheriJavid2015,
author="Javaheri Javid, Mohammad Ali and Blackwell, Tim and Zimmer, Robert and Al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid",
editor="Pereira, Francisco and Machado, Penousal and Costa, Ernesto and Cardoso, Am{\'i}lcar",
title="Spatial Complexity Measure for Characterising Cellular Automata Generated 2D Patterns ",
bookTitle="Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2015. Proceedings",
year="2015",
publisher="Springer International Publishing",
address="Cham",
pages="201--212",
isbn="978-3-319-23485-4",
doi="10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_21",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_21 http://de.evo-art.org/index.php?title=Spatial_complexity_measure_for_characterising_cellular_automata_generated_2D_patterns"
}
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